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• s  showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wide social experience
  maintained an urbane tone in his letters

• Always urbane, seemingly unflappable, often cutting in his remarks, he gave the opposition as good as he got.
• Sometimes it is hard to imagine that Anton, a school dropout, transformed himself into an urbane and well read journalist.
• The urbane head of a publishing company is under pressure to resign following revelations of a money laundering scandal.

• polished
• refined
• svelte

News & Articles

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• Signals are mixed as Taliban adopt a new tactic
  DOHA, Qatar — When the Taliban opened their political office in Qatar last week, stepping into the halogen glare of TV cameras, it was the first time in a dozen years that the world had gotten to see members of the insurgents’ inner circle — and they seemed different. Urbane and educated, they conducted interviews in English, Arabic, French, and German with easy fluency, passed out and received ...
  June 26, 2013 - Boston Globe

Quotes

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• Michael Kors in Women's Wear Daily
  It's about smarts. It's about being urbane,says Michael Kors. "What [the Obamas] represent is that you can be smart, you can be sophisticated, you can be well-read, you can be accomplished and you can be attractive at the same time."
• Andrew Jackson in AINA
  Andrew Jackson, according to his biographer James Parton, was a bundle of contradictions: "A democratic aristocrat. An urbane savage. An atrocious saint."
• Paul Dacre in BBC News
  Mr Dacre added: "Dashing, urbane, incredibly glamorous and, above all, utterly fearless, Ross's award-winning despatches for the Daily Mail from the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts were the envy of his peers."